This community of practice is a participant-driven online space dedicated to sharing experiences, strategies, and resources among academic staff and instructors who teach online large enrolment courses. The group was created to provide a space for community members to support one another through teaching and learning in large student cohorts.
In this community of practice, participants will have the opportunity to:
Meeting notes are shared in a Teams channel and a D2L course shell that all members have access to.
The Community of Practice for Large Online Enrolment Courses is open to all faculty and instructors who teach online courses with more than 50 students.
If you are interested, please contact Lorelei Anselmo or Sreyasi Biswas for a link to join the next meeting.
Upcoming meetings are being held on the last Friday of Jan., March, and April from 2:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m.
The Learning Technology Forum is a space to share different ways we use learning technology as a part of our teaching and learning in the University of Calgary community and to connect with other members of the community. Learning technology is a broad category, but the focus of the forum is on the tools instructors use to engage learners and evaluate learning.
The Learning Technology Forum is a 45-minute session for discussing learning technology; what works, what doesn’t work, what we’ve learned, and what we want to know.
In the forum, participants will have the opportunity to:
Date: First Monday of every month.
Time: 10 a.m.
The Learning Technology Forum is open to everyone in the University of Calgary community who teaches (online or in-person), and works with or has an interest in learning technologies.
If you are interested, please contact Tyson Kendon to be added to the Learning Technology Forum mailing list.
This community of practice is a collaborative and collective learning space to connect, capture, and share our learning, thoughts, and experiences with EDIA in teaching and learning practices. In this participant-driven space, we aim to explore our understanding of the diverse human experience in post-secondary contexts.
In this community of practice, participants will have the opportunity to:
Date: From September to May (except December and April), meetings take place on the last Wednesday of every month from 3 – 3:50 p.m.
Modality: Online via Zoom
This community of practice is open to educators including course instructors, educational leaders, staff supporting teaching, teaching assistants and postdoctoral scholars in the UCalgary community who have an interest in exploring EDIA practices in their teaching and learning.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Dr. Fouzia Usman, Educational Development Consultant (EDI).
The TI and Libraries & Cultural Resources have collaborated on the development of a new online community of practice (OCoP) for open educational practices at UCalgary. This online community of practice is a space for educators, staff and students to share open educational practices, pedagogies and resources.
In this community of practice, participants will have the opportunity to:
Meeting notes are shared in a Teams channel and a D2L course shell that all participants have access to. As the OCoP grows, the group will develop open-access channels for distributing these notes.
Date: Once per term, next meeting TBD
This community of practice is open to educators, staff, students, and partners who share an interest in open educational practices, including open educational resources (OER).
If you are interested in joining, please contact Sarah Adams (oer@ucalgary.ca).
Extended Reality (XR) is an umbrella term referring to virtual, augmented and mixed reality as well as other immersive environments. This community of practice is a space where instructors using extended reality in their teaching can come together to connect, share experiences, good practices and resources, and to help to foster innovative teaching practices across UCalgary.
Any instructor who teaches (or is interested in teaching) with any form of computer-aided tool, from phone-based Augmented Reality to full Virtual Reality setups, is encouraged to join the community, as is any member of the campus community who helps support these types of efforts.
The XR CoP sessions are held online. The Zoom links for each session will be sent to the participants closer to the date of the session. Please see below the session schedule for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Dates:
If you are interested in joining the Teaching with XR Community of Practice, please contact Tyson Kendon and Anna Pletnyova.
This community of practice is a space to hold work-integrated learning conversations across campus, a space to share best practices, collaborate, build reciprocal relationships and to create some shared mutually beneficial resources.
In this community of practice, participants will have the opportunity to:
Dates
• Thursday, April 10, 9:30am - 11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, Sept. 18, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
• Thursday, Dec. 11, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
This community of practice is open to all faculty and staff involved in Work-Integrated Learning at UCalgary.
If you are interested in joining, please contact Mika Blundell for an invitation to the next meeting and access to our Team channel.
To design a thoughtful and mutually beneficial online community of practice (OCoP), we developed a seven-stage framework. While it may be useful for readers to approach these stages like sequential steps, the framework is well-suited to an iterative approach that accommodates rapidly changing conditions and needs. At each stage of the framework, we suggest asking the following reflective questions to prompt intentional design of your OCoP.